The family was a basic unit of society. How did it operate? How did the family constrain the way in which men and women lived? What can we tell about how women operated in society?

Families

• Household and Family: Concepts
• The Roman Family: Basics
• Family Names and Social Evolution
• Size and Form of the Family
• Being a Roman Woman

Women (and Men) in Society

• Roman Sexual Behaviours
  • Male Sexualities
  • Ovidian Arts of Love
• Cleopatra: Egyptian Queen
  • Cleopatra: Myths and Legends
  • Cleopatra: Donations of Alexandria
• Livia and Octavian
• Livia
• Maecenas and Terentia
• The Augustan Circle
• Julia’s Boys and the Imperial Succession
  • The Fall of Julia
  • Julia the Younger’s Fall: Repeating History
• Reform and Order 19-18
• Moral Reforms
  • Lex Iulia de maritandis ordinibus/lex Papia Poppaea
  • Lex Iulia de adulteriis coercendis
• Agrippina and the interment of Germanicus’ ashes
• The Falls of Agrippina, Nero and Drusus
• Gaius and the Imperial Family
• Claudius and his Women
  • Messalina
  • Fall of Messalina
  • Agrippina Wife of the Emperor
  • Agrippina in Power
• Agrippina: Mother of the Emperor
  • Murdering Mother

An Example: Pliny the Younger and Family Issues

• An Ideal Husband
• An Ideal Wife: Introducing Calpurnia
  • Calpurnia’s Education
• Pliny in Love
• Pliny’s Lover
• Dying for Love: Suicidal Female Friends of Pliny

 

 

 

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